The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-12-29

who was just full nough 70 be very dignited
an quarrelsome, that Jestice o. the peace is
alters in session, an alters objeck O. contempt.
l call on all bystanders, in the name o. the
law, to prevent this fight
This made an end to the fracas. Hank put
on his cloze' jowerin' all the time at Remus
that he warn't through with him, but would
settle the matter at the first chance. Jest then
the women blowed the horn for supper, an
there wuz q rush for the house. While we wuz
round the table / noticed that Remus ct
only little. till he got up an went out
side with Zeke, who appeared to be sutterin'
some. Jest bout that time, Isee Romulus Cicero
Arbuckle, who's apparently rid over alter school,
come in, eat little, an then go off in his quiet
way, an set by hisself in the corner, sayin'
nothin' to nobody. Nobody paid no 'tention to
his comm in, for they all thought it was Re-
mus Julius. found out a forwards that Mary
Warsaw, in some way, had never come to
know that her beau's brother favored him so
much that they cOuld't be told apart. She
wuz watchin' her opportunity and when no.
body was nigh she slipt up to him, an said
very winnin'ly:
$50 Well. I'd like to know what's got into ye,
that we nothin' at all to say to me-
"Romulus Cicero, whose face alters got ez
red ez hollyhock when gal spoke to him,
stammered out:
al axes your pardin'. Howdye do this
eEenin'?
well, declare seq Mary, her own face
gittin' red, eff that amt COOL Well, sir, since
you ak, none the better for SEEM you. Does
that satisfy you ole cross patch p
I'm sorry-no, Pm glad stammered Rom
illus Cicero. You're lookin' very well, this
evenin.'
:" Really said Mary with mockin' laugh.
@ Yes, seq Romulus Cicero gittin' redder
an more confused all the time. i think you're
lookin very well, indeed
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be- said Mary, mad hornet.
Eff We want to sulk, sulk it
it out. l came over to make it up. I thought
you wuz sorry for what you said the other day,
an WIZ ready to meet ye more'n than half
way. But We kin jest go on sulkin', now, till
you're sick of if. / jest despise a man with
sich temper With that she founced away,
an findin' 'Masa Throckmorton tickled that
little man Almost to death by AKIN him to git
some others an come into the next room an
play Copenhagen. She'd skeercely gone when
Hank Gillem pranced up to Romulus Cicero,
an said low. so the others wouldn't hear:
Squire Tulkinhorn's not out in the back
yard
No. said Romulus Cicero, very innocently,
He's over there at the fur end O. the table. At
least see him there a mint ago.
go What / mean,' said Hank, grindin' his
teeth, is that there's no contempt o. court out
behind the house.
as Shouldn't think there'd be- said Romulus
Cicero, very cam. It's no place fur it. But
there's Almost everything else there
Y're darned smart, amt YEP said Hank.
But / expected you'd sneak outen it. You
can't git off this easy, though, for Pm bound to
thrash you yit, you blamed coward an he
stalked of, leavin' Romulus Cicero lookin' ez
eff he thought the house wuz rockin' on its
foundations.
whilst this was a-gwyne on Remus Tullius
ways arm to see eff any bones WIZ broke. He
found that there wuzn't, but that Zeke WIZ
hurt wuss than they thought at first, an his
feelins toward Hank wuzn't improved so to
speak, He came back into the house, passin'
into the room where Mary Warsaw an the rest
WIZ laughin an cuttin' up over their game O.
Copenhagen. He waltzed right up to her, with
his face all smiles, an said:
"'Good evenin', Miss Warsaw; I'm so glad
Mary looked at him with her eyes fashin'
Got over yer sulks already, have YEP said
she; well, hsvn't. Ye kin Jest wait now
till I'm ready. Les go on with our game, Mr.
| Throckmorton.'
90 saryes him right, Miss Mary said Hank
/ Gillem, who'd just come up, with boss laugh.
Sarves him right. He's not with your notice
/ He's coward, who's awful sassy when there's
no danger, but
"tYou're liar said Remus with his blue
eyes blazin' like mad, an seemin' to grow all
at once foot higher an wider across the shout
ders. never see man look so dangerous in
all my born days. Come outside an I'll mash
/ ye into sassidge meat, ye bully, you.'
He 'peared so savage that Hank actually
quailed.
"'This g my lady" said 'Masa, comm bust
| lin up an not understanding but Remus Tul-
| Illus jest brushed him off into the corner o.
/ the room with his left hand, ez one brushes a
I hosshy.
& tET-rI > L TT r
| have 70 drag ye out by main force?'
The women screamed, an some o. the men
crowded in betwixt the two.
"Romnlus Cicero came Tunnin' in an laid
his hand on Remus's arm. Brother, brother,
he said, be cam. Don't make sturbance.
/ Remember you're gentleman, an in the pres
ence of ladies'
"''Ye oughtye seen the look that came into
! Mary warsaw's eyes ez she see Romulus Cice-
| 70. 1t flashed on her that she'd made mis-
take, an she also laid her hand on Remus's
ARM
"'For my sake, Mr.. Arbuckle,' he said
keep quiet. Let this pass, now, at least
g For your sake will said Remus, but ]
won't for no one else that breathes. That there
bully's been itchin' for a thrashin' for month
an I'm snfierin' TO give it to him.
50 Sh-h-h,' said Mary Warsaw, an drawed
him away to 'nuther room. She didn't git him
CANNED down though till she promised to
marry him. an to let him tell the company
that they WuZ engaged.
We didn't let this little breeze interfere
q with our havin' the good time we come for, an
we kept it up till long after the ROSTERS wuz
CROWN for midnight.
+" The whole thing didn't set at all well on
S'phrony's stomach an in the course o. the
eYenin' she said, thinkin' she wuz speakin' Il
Romulus Cicero, who wuz too softhcarted tC
repeat her words to his brother:
So Well, / don't hsrbOr no ill-will agin you
brother for insultin' me by raisin' fuss in my
house. for he's got his own punishment in the
girl he's engaged hisself TO. She'll pay it al
back to him. Think of her, alter all the air
she's put on, marryin' common blacksmith
But then, alters said she wuz very common
in her idees.'
80 Excuse me, Missis Hathaway said Remu
Tulius, very stiffiy. I'm the fortinit one who
a-gwine to marry Miss Warsaw 1 only hop
that my brother'li have the luck to git so gooC
wife Pll now wish yc goodnight an yol
kin rest assured that neither me nor my wifi
viii ever darken your doors agin.'"
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